Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / hsbc.com

C

hsbc.com

8/12 · 67% (scaled from 3 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-15 15:19 UTC in 7.0s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Machine-readable surfaces (+2 points): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

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Crawler access (robots.txt)

not measured

Robots.txt could not be fetched (timed out after 7s)

  • GET https://hsbc.com/robots.txt failed: timed out after 7s

Fix: Make sure https://hsbc.com/robots.txt answers a plain GET within a few seconds.

Machine-readable surfaces

0/2 · fail

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: unreachable (timed out after 7s)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 404
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 404
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.

Readable without JavaScript

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://hsbc.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 2 redirects (final: https://www.hsbc.com/), text/html, 147 KB
  • 10,154 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "HSBC Group corporate website | HSBC Holdings plc"
  • 4 external scripts, 6 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Skip to: Skip to Primary navigation Skip to Main content Skip to Footer Menu Who we are Skip to Investors Who we are Founded in 1865, HSBC i..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type WebSite, VideoObject
  • Open Graph: og:title "HSBC Group corporate website | HSBC Holdings plc"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

not measured

Unavailable

  • census hosts.json: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time
  • GET /mcp failed: timed out after 7s

Fix: Re-run in a few minutes.

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